A bit wet and scrappy today, but good to have the driving done. Just got off the phone with Grant Gunderson over at Ski Journal. Will stop by there and report. Long slog up here from Carbondale. The Nissan Versa…

We’re headed up to Bellingham, Washington with our son Louie for his college move. I was helping the guy install new fender flares on his XJ, and thinking that’s my kind of college prep. We’re bringing our skis to try…

So I wrote in my backpacking journal on a four-day backpack trip this July in Olympic National Park in Washington (not Greece despite popular belief). The trip was with Summit for Someone, a fundraising climb series benefiting Big City Mountaineers. I had convinced my good friend Lane Keough to take on this adventure with me. After months of fundraising and training, we were finally undertaking what would be my hardest, but most enjoyable, expedition to date.

There is nothing more special as a parent then sharing what you love with your kids. You might be a musician molding your boy’s fingers to a fretboard for the first time, or a poet slicing and dicing words till your girl’s smile splits her face like an ocean sunrise, or a farmer checking your crop in an earthy hands-on way that grabs that primal part of your kid’s core.

Mom Dawson’s 78th year and she’s still strutting around Crested Butte like she owns the place. Must be that mountain air. Everyone say Happy B-Day! Heading out for a hike today. Probably should have brought the skis but haven’t quite…